Cinema: A Plea for Perversion?

Victim (Allied; Pathé-America), a British picture that the Johnston
office has found "thematically objectionable," elaborates a startling
statistic: in nine out of ten cases of blackmail in Britain, the victim
is a homosexual. Why? The answer, as provided by a speech in the
script: "A law which sends homosexuals to prison"as
Britain's does"is a charter for blackmail." As the film
begins, a young homosexual (Peter McEnery) who has robbed his employer
to pay his extortionist is caught by the police. Rather than implicate
the eminent barrister (Dirk Bogarde) with whom he is emotionally
(though not sexually) involved, the boy commits suicide....